Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Ho Ho Ho I spy a cryptid

Do you believe in the cryptid Father Christmas ?

You may laugh but think about the similarities between Santa and documented cryptids.

Cryptids
tend to be seen in places with difficult terrain where they cannot
easily be tracked or seen. -Santa lives in an icy wasteland.

Santa
disappears and reappears. There are stories about bigfoot disappearing
before people’s eyes and many cryptids are only spotted at certain
times of the year when conditions are right .

Santa flies through the air on a sled with flying reindeer. There are many flying cryptids from thunderbirds to mothman.

Then
there are his little helpers –the elves. They could be a descendant or
offshoot of the Hobbit skeletons that were found in recent years.

He leaves gifts. There are old stories of wildmen who left food for the starving on their doorsteps.

Santa is rather hairy according to many depictions with flowing beard and locks. Ditto are many cryptids.

He has a distinctive cry-Ho Ho Ho. So do many cryptids including a species of giant bat that is said to make a similar noise.

Santa
only exists in folklore stories, so do many crytids until people start
to hunt for them. Nearly all cryptids from the Loch Ness Monster to
the Yeti are first discovered in old stories when one looks back at the
time line.

So Is Santa Claus a cryptid?
Probably not as there is no eye witness testimony to back up his
appearances that I am aware of (that does not include your parent in a
red dressing gown and Santa hat and fake beard leaving presents at the
bottom of the bed) but next time someone scoffs at your belief in
cryptids, remind them they believed in Father Christmas once so don’t
knock belief in the unknown.

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About Me

Mother, author, cat lover, amateur cryptozoologist, cook and bottle washer, some times lover, single parent,middle aged,a mad woman without an attic, red wine and chocolate lover.Now housebound due to ill health so an armchair researcher.Too wheezy to sit in a hide and watch for cryptids anymore lol.Have now taken up crafting when I feel able.I now have a Fiction book out on amazon Kindle Dark Ness by Tabitca Cope set in, you guessed it, Loch Ness with monsters , murder , myth and magic.